Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran
Author
Šmíd, Jiří
Author
Moravec, Jiří
Author
Kodym, Petr
Author
Kratochvíl, Lukáš
Author
Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian
Author
Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
jirismd@gmail.com.
Author
Frynta, Daniel
text
Zootaxa
2014
2014-08-20
3855
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1
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Mediodactylus ilamensis
(
Fathinia, Karamiani, Darvishnia, Heidari & Rastegar-Pouyani, 2011
)
HOLOTYPE
. RUZM-GC120.1.
TYPE LOCALITY.
Zarin-Abad region
,
Dehloran Township
,
Ilam Prov.
,
Iran
.
DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to
Iran
.
DISTRIBUTION IN
IRAN
.
Fig. 51
.
Known
only from
two specimens
from the
type
locality
.
HABITAT. The
type
locality lies in an area of gypsum and lime deposits and is covered with different vegetation
types
mainly including grasses, bushes and shrubs (
Capparidaceae
:
Capparis spinosa
,
Cleome oxypetala
;
Caryophyllaceae
:
Gypsophyla linearifolia
,
G. pallida
;
Chenopodiaceae
:
Halocharis sulphurea
,
Noaea mucronata
,
Salsola imbricate
; Compositae:
Achillea conferta
;
Rosaceae
:
Amygdalus arabica
), and sparse trees (
Pistachia atlantica
and
Quercus brantii
). The specimens were collected on foothills heavily grazed by sheep and goats.
REMARKS. Originally described under the genus
Carinatogecko
. For discussion on synonymization with
Mediodactylus
see
Bauer
et al.
(2013)
and remarks by
M. heteropholis
above.
REFERENCES.
Fathinia
et al.
(2011a)
;
Bauer
et al.
(2013)
.